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silverorange designs and develops simple yet powerful web and mobile applications - http://silverorange.com

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Working with Clients on Complex Software Estimations The following is a retrospective account of working with team leads, project managers, and a client, on the most challenging technical refactor I have ever worked on. Though I write this as a develope...

One of our fine developers has written about the challenges of estimating and navigating a complex re-architecture of a key app component.

www.silverorange.com/blog/complex...

04.03.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Maureen Holland | Writer & Web Developer

Our lead front-end developer maureenholland.ca shared a nice recap of her experience at the #ffconf web conference: hachyderm.io/@maureenholl...

27.02.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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silverorange job openings silverorangeΒ designs and develops simple yet powerful web and mobile applications.

We're hiring for two remote-first web development positions in Canada. One is focused on #frontend and the other on #python. www.silverorange.com/job

19.02.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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The Wonderful World of Web Feeds - HTMHell A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

Front-end web developer extraordinaire and silverorange slice, maureenholland.ca, has written a great post for the HTMhell Advent Calendar again this year. Her topic is one close to our hearts: Wonderful World of Web Feeds!

htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

www.silverorange.com/blog/another...

16.12.2025 14:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
silverorange digest Fall 2025 Edition In this edition of the silverorange digest: We’ve redesigned our own website Recent client work with Kindsight and EM:RAP Our brush with TV fame on The Pitt and MasterChef Canada A round up of article...

We've published a bit of a general news update from silverorange:

🎨 We’ve redesigned our own website
πŸ—οΈ Recent client work with Kindsight and EM:RAP
πŸ“Ί Our brush with TV fame on The Pitt and MasterChef Canada
πŸ“š A round up of articles we’ve published

www.silverorange.com/blog/digest-...

15.10.2025 15:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Digital program boosts mental fitness and resilience among health care workers - CAN Health September 23, 2025 (Halifax, Nova Scotia) – AIR (Atlantic Institute for Resilience), a Canadian technology company focused on well-being, released promising results from a digital resilience initiativ...

Congrats to our client, AIR (Atlantic Institute for Resilience), on their partnership with CAN Health, providing digital tools to boost mental health resilience among health care professionals. canhealthnetwork.ca/digital-prog...

26.09.2025 13:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
What does it mean to be responsive? A typical approach to responsive web design is β€œmobile-first”. Get the essentials right for the smallest canvas and then work up to the desktop design. But how responsive is your design to user font s...

Responsive web design is about more than screen width. Our lead front-end developer Maureen wrote about how internationally-aware fonts, support for dark mode, and accommodations for color and motion preferences are all part of being responsive to people's needs: www.silverorange.com/blog/what-do...

25.09.2025 13:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How to Choose the Best Programming Languages, Libraries, and Patterns In my first few years learning software development and building applications, I was quite interested in finding the best programming language, platform, libraries, frameworks, patterns, and architect...

Ryan Kay, a developer on our app team focused on Android and backend development, shares his Law of Suitability, and how it can help you identify the best water bottle, programming language, or development framework.

www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-...

11.08.2025 18:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot from neal.fun Internet Roadtrip website showing Google Maps street view with yellow victorian-style house labeled "silverorange HQ"

Screenshot from neal.fun Internet Roadtrip website showing Google Maps street view with yellow victorian-style house labeled "silverorange HQ"

Hey, @neal.fun's delightful crowd-driven neal.fun/internet-roadtrip drove by the silverorange offices on Prince Edward Island! πŸ‘‹

19.06.2025 14:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

We actually have a *signed copy* of Jakob Nielsen's Designing Web Usability in our office!

04.06.2025 22:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GAAD Thursday, May 15, 2025, help us celebrate the 14th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)! The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, ...

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day! #gaad accessibility.day

Here are a few accessibility resources we’ve been appreciating recently:

hidde.blog/a11y-faq/
makeitfable.com/article/how-...
www.tpgi.com/are-you-cond...
tetralogical.com/blog/categor...
practical-accessibility.today

15.05.2025 16:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Learning Accessibility as a Designer silverorangeΒ designs and develops simple yet powerful web and mobile applications.

Helen, a great designer here at silverorange, has shared her experience with Sara Soueidan’s practical-accessibility.today course. It's targeted for developers, but it's critical for designers to understand the fundamental accessibility issues in the web. #gaad

www.silverorange.com/blog/practic...

14.05.2025 16:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Accessibility in our hiring process silverorangeΒ designs and develops simple yet powerful web and mobile applications.

Global Accessibility Awareness Day #gaad is happening this week and we're sharing a bit of how accessibility factors into our work at silverorange.

Our Director of People Management, Nikki Mifflen-Mitchell, has written about Accessibility in our hiring process: www.silverorange.com/blog/accessi...

12.05.2025 12:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Gild Just One Lily β€” Smashing Magazine β€œGilding the lily” isn’t always bad. In design, a touch of metaphorical gold β€” a subtle animated transition, a hint of color, or added depth in a drop shadow β€” can help communicate a level of care and...

The phrase "gild the lily" implies unnecessary ornamentation.

Our Creative Director, Steven Garrity, has written for Smashing Magazine to encourage you that a little touch of what might seem like unnecessary ornamentation in design is exactly what you need.

smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/gild...

11.04.2025 12:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You noticed! ❀️

27.03.2025 16:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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silverorange | building powerful web-based systems silverorangeΒ designs and develops simple yet powerful web and mobile applications.

We’ve redesigned our silverorange.com website, bringing it into its fifth era. In this redesign, we've leaned on the illustration talents of one of our great designers, Jacky Gilbertson who wrote about the design, the process, and a few (literal) easter eggs:

www.silverorange.com/blog/website...

27.03.2025 14:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Why silverorange? The collective thoughts of web design and development firm silverorange

Our Director of People Management, Nikki, on how and why she came to work at silverorange (we're so glad she did!)

blog.silverorange.com/why-silveror...

28.01.2025 16:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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You don’t need the isOpen class - HTMHell A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

On day 16 Maureen Holland tells us why we don’t need the isOpen class. #HTMHellAdventCalendar

htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

16.12.2024 13:11 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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You don’t need the isOpen class - HTMHell A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

Our own Maureen Holland has contributed to the 2024 #HTMHell Advent Calendar: htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

It’s great to see Maureen’s expertise on display in the great company of writers like John Allsopp, LΓ©onie Watson, and many others.

blog.silverorange.com/htmhell

16.12.2024 17:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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At silverorange, we use our Employee of the Year to highlight something (not an employee) that we loved about the year. In 2024, our Employee of the Year was the amazing crochet slices that Jose’s partner Anita made for *all* of us.

02.12.2024 19:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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As part of our (remote) company retreat this week, we're seeing how far 38 of us can collectively walk.

In Lord of the Rings terms, we've made it 10% of the way from The Shire to Mordor in 2 days.

28.11.2024 13:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0